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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I have a generic bluetooth dongle, Version 3.0 which is able to connect my iPod Touch and iPad but not my Apple wireless keyboard. I use Blueman as my Bluetooth manager. When I try to connect the keyboard I get this message,

@OP: Can you provide the solution so that others can also benefit from it?

Taken off the zero-reply list.

My apologies for not saying how I resovled my issue, I thought I had. Thanks for bring it to my attention.

My solution was to toss the apple keyboard aside for a cheap wireless keyboard (ver 3.0). As with my USB bluetooth dongle (ver 4.0) neither worked in Linux Mint Maya (13). I think Maya's kernal is 3.2.0 or something? Oh, and I also needed bluetooth manager from Software Manager (Blueman) to configure my USB dongle (ver 3.0) in order for the keyboard, mouse, tablet, and iPod to work. Blueman was a simple, quick setup, everything loaded it up. and worked.

Note: When I ran Linux Mint 15 live and installed, Apple's keyboard worked via a bluetooth dongle (ver 4.0) flawlessly.

Bluetooth drivers as supplied with Mint 13, Mate and Xfce, both 32 & 64 bit do not work.
I removed "mate-bluetooth", then installed "blueman" Bluetooth Manager and, accessing it through the "Memu", was able to connect my Bluetooth Mouses to both my Laptop (Core2Duo 1.6) and Netbook (Samsung N145+).